1. War between Naar and the Gods of Light, time length uncertain. Agreed
to truce after a while, and the nine Planes of Existence (our current
existing universe) created as proof of goodwill. Planes shaped from both
Naar and Ishir's powers.

2. Naar violates the truce, attacks and captures one Plane and names it
the Plane of Darkness. Uses its cosmic powers to wage war once more on
Ishir and the Gods of Light while trying to capture the other Planes as
well (bad guys never give up, don't they?). Ishir too captures a Plane,
names it the Plane of Light and the war starts again.

3. Plane of Darkness, Elemental Strongholds of Earth and Fire = Naar. Confluence, Elemental Strongholds of Air and Water, Plane of Light = Ishir. By then science has taken its course, and advanced lifeforms now exist on Daziarn (but not Aon). Naar sends his champion, Agarash the Damned, to the planet of Magnamund in Aon to start his conquest of the Plane. Ishir creates an ancient race of magicians, the Elder Magi, and
the two sides duke it out on Magnamund for a thousand millennia. The Elder Magi win, but are sorely weakened.

4. Naar sends the 18 Darklords to Magnamund, and beat the living crap =
out of the remaining Elder Magi magicians. The survivors flee to Eastern
Magnamund and colonize a piece of land there, called it Dessi. Ishir
creates the race of Sommlending, while Kai, Sun God and ally of Ishir
welds the magical Sommerswerd and gifts it to the Sommlending. The
Sommlending resided in Northern Magnamund and christened their piece of
territory as Sommerlund, capital = Holmgard.

5. Darklords made their land right west of Sommerlund (a mountain range
separates Sommerlund from the Darklands). Darklord Vashna, the leader,
leads an army to invade Sommerlund, but died in combat, defeated by King
Ulnar I who then wielded the Sommerswerd. The whole horde of nasty
monsters flee back to the Darklands.

6. The Baron of Tyso (a city in Sommerlund) as well as a bunch of other
Sommlending discovered their special powers during the war. They grouped
together to further refine their abilities, and called themselves the
Kai Lords. Back in the Darklands, civil war broke out as the Darklords
scrambled for the empty throne, now that Vashna got his head cut off.
New leader = Darklord Zagarna. Fifty years later (Darklords have a
real long lifespan), Zagarna invaded Sommerlund again, but suffered
defeat once more, Zagarna perishing in the hands of Lone Wolf, a Kai
warrior who held the Sommerswerd at that time.

7. One more civil war in the Darklands, one more new leader, Darklord
Gnaag. Now this guy's smart. He studies history! (Don't laugh) And he
discovers that the Sommerswerd has been their undoing all this while. So
he plans to get rid of the Kai warriors and the Sommerswerd first. See
what a little attention in History class can do for you? So, he launched
a sneak attack on the Kai Monastery by AIR (no airplanes, but they have
these big flying pterodactyls -- remember the Kraan?). Most of the Kai
warriors get massacred, caught by surprise, but Lone Wolf escapes. He
got caught and killed too in the end, but not before he tossed the
Sommerswerd through a Shadow Gate. Gnaag foolishly dismisses this, and
proceeds with his invasion, conquering country by country, but a few
still resist, including Sommerlund and Dessi... did I mention the
remaining Elder Magi banded up with the Sommlending too?

8. Cut out to the Sahara Desert, Earth, Daziarn, with this guy stubbing
his toe on something sharp in the sand. He pulls it out, only to see it
is a finely-crafted golden sword which zapped him -- actually, HE
unconsciously established a psychic link with the sword -- sorta gifting
him with the powers of the Kai warriors, as well as opening a Shadow
Gate and sucking him back to Magnamund.

9. SD appears in Sommerlund, in the remote town of Ruanon south of
Sommerlund which is under heavy siege. SD, being human instead of
Sommlending, had the advantages of the ability to wield ki energy. Half
of the Armies of Night ran away at the sight of the Sommerswerd and the
Kai Lord, and those who didn't got kicked pretty bad. The citizens
cheered.

10. An annoyed Gnaag throws the ENTIRE freakin' army right at Ruanon,
determined to get at Shadow Dragon, but the guy disappears through a
Shadow Gate and back to Earth just in time. Gnaag reports this to Naar,
who decides to regulate matters into his own hands for a while. Cut to
Earth, with Naar recruiting Bison and Man Sei, promising them unlimited
powers if they agree. Man Sei, of course, gets lured by the deal,
figuring he gets to crush Wai Lim then, and go home to his family and
throw up some ruckus. Bison was sorta annoyed that HE wasn't the man in
charge for once, but was soon convinced after a little "demonstration"
by Naar.

11. Ishir gets wind of what Naar's doing, and decides to help the human
race a little. Nine of her most trusted divine warriors get sent down to
Daziarn.. to choose a host they deemed as suitable and use their new
bodies to resist Naar. The hosts, of course, know nothing about
themselves getting attached to the holy fighters, nor do they know
anything about Naar.. except for one, of course (why else would he be
writing this? ^_^).
 

12. Read ShockWave's background profile, then the BF chapters, and you
know the rest.